Portable cabinet for cuspidors.



PATBNTED APR. 10, 1906.

A. HBAGELB. PORTABLE CABINET FOR GUSPIDORS.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 6.1905.

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ARTHUR HEAGELE, OF PHILADELP HIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN PRICE, OFPHILA'DELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PORTABLE CABINET FOR GUSPIDORS.

No. 817,710. Specification of Application filed October 6,

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR HEAGELE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Portable Cabinets for Cuspidors, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in portable cabinets for cuspidors, and has for its object to so construct such a cabinet that a cuspidor placed therein will be concealed from view except when needed for use, when it may be readily opened by depressing a rod in easy reach; and a further object of my invention is to provide means for conveying the cabinet containing the cuspidor from one place to another.

With these ends in view my inventionconsists in the details of construction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth and then specifically designated by the claims.

In order that those skilled in the art to which my invention appertains may understand how to make and use the same, I will describe its construction in detail, referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved cabinet, a portion of the handle being broken away. Fig. 2 is a section of the body of the cabinet, showing a cuspidor therein, the handle being in elevation and the cover closed; Fig. 3, a vertical section of the cabinet and handle, the cover being in its open po sition; Fig. 4:, a section at the line as w of Fig. 2 looking downward.

- A represents a cabinet of any suitable design, which may be provided with the legs B, or the legs may be omitted, as preferred. The body of this cabinet is of sufficient size to receive a cus idor O.

A cover D is 'nged at E to the cabinet, so as to be swung upward to the position shown in Fig. 3.

F is a handle secured to the back of the cabinet and extending u ward to any con venient height, said hand e being hollow and having fitted therein a rod Gr, adapted to slide vertically within the handle. The in- Letters Patent.

Patented April 10, 1906.

1905. serialno. 281,687.

ner face of the handle is flush with the edge of the cabinet, to which it is attached.

The lower end of the rod is beveled, as indicated at H, and adapted to bear against the rear end of the cover D, which projects beyond the hinge E, so that when the rod is depressed with sufficient force the bevel attached thereto will swing the cover upward to the position shown in Fig. 3, where it will be locked by the bevel H, wedging it in its elevated position. The cover D extends beyond its pivot E into the hollow handle through an opening in the inner face thereof. The cover is adapted when elevated to contact with the edges of the opening in order that the upward movement of the cover be limited.

A strip of metal I may be secured to the 1 upper surface of the cover D at its rear end,

so as to receive the thrust of the rod, thereby preventing wear upon the cover.

In practice a cuspidor being placed within the cabinet is concealed from view by the cover D; but when it is desired to use the cuspidor it is only necessary to depress the upper end of the rod G, which extends above the handle F, thereby raising and locking the cover in its open position until the handle is drawn upward, when the cover will again swing into a closed position, as will be readily understood. The handle has the further use of making it convenient to move the cabinet from one place to another, and both the cabinet and the handle may be of any ornamental design, so as to make the presence of a cuspidor in no Wise objectionable or unsightly.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful is As a new article of manufacture, a cabinet having a cover pivoted thereto, a hollow handle extending upward from one side of the cabinet, the inner face of the handle being flush with the side of the cabinet to which it is attached and in line with the pivotal points of said cover, said hollow handle having an opening in its inner face through which the cover extends, the said edges of the opening being beveled, a rod fitting within the ollow handle, the lower end of the rod being beveled on the side toward the cover on an incline equal to the beveled side edges of the opening of the handle and adapted to contaet with the cover to elevate the same, the

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my upward movement of the cover being limited signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. by the edges of the opening whereby the ARTHUR HEAGELE. bevel of the wedgesheped end of saidirod is v lVitnesses: adapted to lock said cover at the uppermost MARY 1S. HAMER, limit of its movement.

S. S. WILLIAMSON 

